Good Guys Go to Heaven, Bad Guys Go to Pattaya (2016) poster
2016 · comedy · sports

Good Guys Go to Heaven, Bad Guys Go to Pattaya

Directed by Franck Gastambide1h 40m2016
ElsewhereIMDb4.82k
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
  • funny
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Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / sports, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Franky and Krimo dream of leaving the grey grime of their neighborhood behind and of traveling to the famous and diabolical Thai beach resort of Pattaya. To get there cheaply, the two friends have the crazy idea of registering, unbeknownst to him, the local little person for the Thai Dwarf Boxing World Championship. But what was supposed to be a dream vacation will transform into the most insane and dangerous adventure of their lives.

Our read · Good Guys Go to Heaven, Bad Guys Go to Pattaya (2016) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a crude French bro-comedy gone wildly wrong on a Pattaya trip.

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Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditydrug usecringe humiliation

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If Good Guys Go to Heaven, Bad Guys Go to Pattaya is your film
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(unless you want French irreverence)
Les Kaira (2012)
same director's earlier raunchy friend trip
(if you want fresh cast and setting)
Very Bad Trip (2009)
wild French bachelor misadventures
DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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